Yohji Yamamoto

Yohji Yamamoto is an award winning and influential Japanese fashion wear designer based in Tokyo and Paris. A master tailor, his reputation is known for his avant-garde techniques featuring Japanese design aesthetics and his Y3 collaboration with adidas. Regularly showing at Paris fashion week, Yamamoto frequently creates fashion mens wear far removed from current trends. His signature oversized jackets, blazers, trousers and button down shirts in black often feature drapery in varying textures.

Japanese fashion designers, like Yamamoto, have had a unique influence on the fashion world which has led him to collaborate with other fashion brands, including Hermès, Mikimoto and Mandarina Duck; and with artists of different genres, such as Tina Turner, Sir Elton John, Placebo, Pina Bausch and Heiner Müller.